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Hi

A good way to get into stock photography is with a "micropayment" site
such as this.......

http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=5258

you won't get much per sale ( 20c in this case ) but you WILL get MANY
sales. It's a great way for enthusiastic amateurs to learn about Stock
and earn a few dollars at the same time.

Pete

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station5 says...

> http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=5258
>
> you won't get much per sale ( 20c in this case ) but you WILL get MANY
> sales. It's a great way for enthusiastic amateurs to learn about Stock
> and earn a few dollars at the same time.

Hmmm... I just sold a photo for 175 Euro (= $222). To make the same
amount of money with your site, I would have to sell the image over 1100
times.

I can just recommend to anybody not to give away their images for
essentially nothing.
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Alfred Molon
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Olympus 4040, 5050, 5060, 7070, 8080, E300 forum at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
Olympus 8080 resource - http://myolympus.org/8080/

I agree, 1100 is pushing it a bit, but perhaps you have earned the
position where your images can command such a fee. When you first
started, would you not have welcomed the opportunity which is available
to us now. Those with the ability to consistantly produce quality will
still progress, in the end, and those content to remain hobbyists will
be happy with a smaller reward. This sort of site opens up the world of
stock photography to everybody which is bound to happen as it becomes
easier and cheaper by the month to capture high resolution images.

"Alfred Molon" <> wrote in message
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>
> > http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=
> >
> > you won't get much per sale ( 20c in this case ) but you WILL get MANY
> > sales. It's a great way for enthusiastic amateurs to learn about Stock
> > and earn a few dollars at the same time.
>
> Hmmm... I just sold a photo for 175 Euro (= $222). To make the same
> amount of money with your site, I would have to sell the image over 1100
> times.
>
> I can just recommend to anybody not to give away their images for
> essentially nothing.
> --
Completely agree Alfred. Only yesterday, and to my surprise, given what the
pics were, I sold 6 shots on Alamy for around $140 a pop. I think I prefer
$800 to $1.20 on just about any day of the week. The OP's "MANY" would have
to be very very many to get me that sort of easy pocket money - about 4000
according to my elderly calculator.
Hannah.

"station5" <> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> A good way to get into stock photography is with a "micropayment" site
> such as this.......
>
> http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=5258
>
> you won't get much per sale ( 20c in this case ) but you WILL get MANY
> sales. It's a great way for enthusiastic amateurs to learn about Stock
> and earn a few dollars at the same time.
>
> Pete

Crappy sites that saturate the market with photos from amateurs who just
want to make a sale...meanwhile devaluing the market for the rest. Agreed?

"station5" <> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> A good way to get into stock photography is with a "micropayment" site
> such as this.......
>
> http://submit.shutterstock.com/deleted>
> you won't get much per sale ( 20c in this case ) but you WILL get MANY
> sales. It's a great way for enthusiastic amateurs to learn about Stock
> and earn a few dollars at the same time.
>
> Pete
>
"There are 3 ways to make money with this program - Refer photographers,
refer Stock Buyers (make 20% off their subscriptions), and submit photos for
sale!"

Why again did you post the link?

Seems a little like those model agencies that let the monsters in - or those
'academies' that sell diploma's in the mail. But instead of paying a fee,
you pay with your images so you can say you're a real stock photographer.

"station5" <> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> A good way to get into stock photography is with a "micropayment" site
> such as this.......
>
> http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=5258
>
> you won't get much per sale ( 20c in this case ) but you WILL get MANY
> sales. It's a great way for enthusiastic amateurs to learn about Stock
> and earn a few dollars at the same time.
>
> Pete


It is not a good way to make a few dollars.

It is a crappy way to make a few cents.

>>This sort of site opens up the world of stock photography to >>everybody
>>which is bound to happen as it becomes easier and >>cheaper by the month
>>to capture high resolution images.

Quite a large assumption in that statement. There is an enormous difference
between high resolution and high quality. The second one is by far the most
important bit and depends entirely on the photographer's skill.

There are a great number of extremely mediocre or downright talentless
photographers out there who do not know enough, to recognise the true level
of their work. They may be tempted into submitting to one of these sites,
and get an occasional sale at 20 cents, and believe that their work is
acceptable, and just keep on without trying to get better.

Their stuff is so poor that it would not be accepted by a real site. If they
really want to improve, they should work at it, keep trying to get accepted
into a good site, and then one day they may succeed and start earning real
money. Even then they will be unlikely to make a real living, but the extra
will help fund their hobby.


Roy G